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Robert “Bob” Herbert (born March 7, 1945) is an American journalist, an op-ed columnist who wrote for The New York Times. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq war, racism and American political apathy towards racism. He is now a fellow at Demos and serves on the National Governing Board of Common Cause.

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There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

Brutal, Country, Lovers, Violence

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

Complaining, Federal, Hear, Like, Smell, Warfare

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying. . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

Fighting, Iraq, Pointlessly, Soldier, Suffering

There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.

America, Dark, Headlights, Road, Vehicle, War

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Custom, Education, Reality, Residential, School, Schools

I think the Republican Party is accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy

Accurately, Defined, Looks, Party, Thinking, Wealthy

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

Anymore, Easier, Polite, Pornography, Racist

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Arrogance, Incompetence, Mixtures, Power, Things

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